Oh, Lenin,
that trick never works.
95 years ago,
on a calendar most of the western world had put behind them, the Romanov Empire
breathed its last and the Soviet Union crawled up from the primordial compost
that was once Czarist Russia. The “Russian
Revolution moved Russia from a non-industrialized nation to a heavily
industrialized nation able to contest with the United States for the first lunar
landing. After being nearly gutted by
Nazi Germany during WWII, the USSR became a world power, engaging in a
decades-long “Cold War” with the U.S. and its NATO allies; fighting a series of
proxy wars and using client nations to test the military hardware both sides
were developing and selling.
Until the
destruction of the USSR, there was an annual celebration in Red Square
involving a review of armed forces by the political leaders who controlled the
product of the peoples’ labor. New
weaponry, intended to use against NATO forces, was often displayed without
further comment at such parades.
Yesterday’s
Presidential debate took on the character of two Kommisar’s posturing and
arguing before the people who are intended to rubber stamp the eventual
successor. I found Romney’s incessant
bleating that his career in business makes him better able to restore the
current economic recession to a functioning system once more becoming rapidly
annoying and tiring. Further, I believe
it to be patently untrue. Just as the
Soviets were unable to build a functional, non-corrupted, workers’ paradise,
Romney would be unable to craft laissez-faire economy that would not rapidly
begin to further deplete the remaining resources of the former middle
class. That outcome is inherent in the
laissez-faire concept.
The modern history
of American politicians with business
backgrounds is thoroughly discouraging and markedly frightening. The men most steeped in business , Hoover,
Harding, Carter, and G.W. Bush, have all but destroyed the national economy and
thrown the world’s economy into disarray despite doing well in the private
sector.
Hey,Teavangelists,
help me pull 12 million jobs out of my hat
Oh, Romney,
that trick never works!
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